Key: G major
Verse 1
Bb
Am
A -ah -ah -ah -ah,
D
G
Am
E
D
A -ah -ah -ah -ah -ah.
A
Am
A -ah -ah -ah,
D
Am
G
A -ah -ah -ah -ah,
A -ah -ah -ah.
There was this stranger
A
G
D
He was tall and had a dark look
D
there was the feeling
D
A
E
down to the bottom.
G
E
G
We may have been mistaken in this, but at the time,
The questions always come
D
E
Am
All we cared about was the mystery we sensed in this stranger,
G
D
and we waited to see what
One evening that was different from any other,
E
G
he got us all together in the big auditorium.
G
D
The only light was on him,
G
D
G
and we waited in the dark.
Gm
Then out of his tallness came the chanting,
G
D
G
D
first as a whisper we could hardly hear.
Am
D
G
The flippity chip on the bippity pop,
G
D
It didn't make any sense.
didn't understand.
He had trapped us without our knowing it,
D
G
D
possibly it was his manner, an d we came alive
Cm
G
D
G
to him as he slowly moved us with his chant through
the land of hush into insistent, savage,
throbbing crescendos of ecstasy,
as if it were the only thing we could do.
We started to chant with him.
The flippity -jib -bum,
the bippity -bop.
Gm
G
The flippity -jib -bum, the bippity -bop.
Gm
G
And he was up on the high stage
laughing with all his might,
yes, yes, yes.
D
F
But there were those among us who were jealous of his powers,
G
who felt they should be in the centre of the stage,
G
D
They were against our hero and the chanting and
G
D
are going to be with him every free moment.
E
D
And so little by little, a little later,
G
D
these critics set to work to make nonsense out of the
sense of what we were doing.
And they succeeded.
F
D
He didn't have it anymore.
F
E
D
F
After a few disappointing times in the big auditorium,
G
D
the light gone out of him, we
Am
F
all stopped going, and the man who had once
D
seemed so tall and who now seems so much smaller
G
Am
D
left our town, saying no, no, no.
G
D
We lived through the boredom of the time that followed,
G
F
telling each other pale stories
We lived on histories and hopes.
We did this until the miracle
we never thought would happen
again happened,
D
G
D
Am
and he too was tall and dark and had eyes that could look right down into the bottom of you.
E
D
Am
And he got us all together in the big auditorium,
D
and with the light on him, we were in the dark.
Am
C
And we joined in and the magic was in us, and
with him, and he was shouting,
E
D
But there were those among us
who were jealous and so forth, you know.
D
Am
Em
they put us back on the narrow path.
E
F
Am
This is the way things have been in our town
for as long as anyone cares to remember.
Am
D
how are things in your town?
How did you like the song?
TunerE A D G B E
ChordsBb Am D G E...
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